Where are the serious leaders from Canada’s business community, the big-picture thinkers about the country’s future?

Corporate Canada has two good reasons to contribute to the country’s going-forward strategy.

In a somewhat condescending letter to Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, left, on her appointment as minister of finance, Goldy Hyder, centre, president of the Business Council, reminded her that 'the government’s fiscal capacity is not unlimited,' and warned that Canada could face a repeat of the early 1990s fiscal crisis, which led to a sharp cut in federal spending, a prospect roundly dismissed by former Bank of Canada governor David Dodge, right, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and file photographs

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

November 23, 2020

TORONTO—As we struggle to devise a strategy to successfully recover and rebuild the post-pandemic economy, someone is missing from the debate. Where are serious leaders from the business community, corporate executives who are big-picture thinkers about the country’s future? Call it patriotism,...

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